Katie-Jay keeps i-ACT running on several levels. Much of her work entails coordinating partnerships with other grassroots organizations and implementing the campaigns developed by Gabriel and seeing through the details. She graduated from Portland State University with a BA in Sociology and a focus on Community Development. She has previously worked as a community organizer in Thailand, Guatemala, and with grassroots organizations across the United States.

Well done KTJ! I will share this with my students:) Btw…I have over 200 signed up for my Genocide Course next year!! Thanks for all the work you are doing…I remain hopeful that we can push this agenda up the priority list with persistant action. Keep it up:)
Rob

Hi Rob! It’s so good to hear from you. Please feel free to share the poem far and wide. And the videos too. They may feel connected with seeing the kids drumming and dancing. I hope we can push Darfur up the agenda list, too. We must keep the pressure on. For your course this coming term, it would be very cool for you all to take weekly actions, in the beginning you could provide them with actions, and towards the end, the students could contribute to coming up with them
peace, ktj

What a moving poem, KTJ! With your permission, I’ll add it to the anthology of poetry we’re compiling, dedicated to the Darfurians, with anti-genocide themes and hope for peace. Several of the Darfuri children, here, are keeping journals, writing their stories for speeches they want to make on Darfur, making scrapbooks, and composing songs about their lives and their dreams for the future. Your poetry is sure to inspire them. Thank you for sharing.

I, too, dream of this world you speak of, where we receive as our birthright the opportunity to grow, and thrive. And I, too, acknowledge that we have to begin where we are now, that what’s past is past, now waiting to be healed in the present. As for the failure of humanity, yes, look what we’ve have allowed to happen with our complacency, our consent through non-action…. but it’s not everyone purposefully ignoring the unimaginable injustices, not everyone closing their hearts to the pain and suffering we collectively ignore. Don’t forget to include yourself in this human race, and surely, though the results you see may not be complete as you bear witness to the darkness, you have not failed to try, to dedicate yourself completely to the defense of those in need… Please remember that you are at the tip of the spear of many who do indeed care, that you stand at the helm of a growing network of folks pushing for a different future, one we can live with.

And I know that you know all of this… I know that you know…. I’m just wanting to respond somehow.

Thanks Katie Scott
It’s really amazing and superb poem, whish us a readers we can understand it word by word! toward make it applicable on our Darfurian communities and whole the world for peace keeping.